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The famous chess youtuber Agadmator continues his previews on the Nepo – Carlsen 2021 match. The first video of the series was titled “Does Nepo stand a chance against Magnus”, Agadmator analyzed a key game in Nepo’s career vs Peter Leko.

Now Agadmator looks at another Nepo game, this time from the Chess24 Banter Blitz.

Koivisto, the open source chess engine by Kim Kåhre and Finn Eggers, is the winner of the Qualification League of the Top Chess Engine Championship. Koivisto secured the QL title with a last round win, collecting 20,0/26 – 15 wins, 10 draws, and one loss.
ClassicAra, one of the newcomers to TCEC, is second with 19,0/26, while Booot gets the bronze with 18,0/26.

Final ranking of the Qualification League

Charlotte Chess Masters 2021 will take place July 16-18. It is the 3rd edition of the Masters and will be a 5 round USCF and FIDE-rated event featuring guaranteed prizes and strong competition in 2 sections – Masters A (2200+ FIDE) and Masters B (1900+ USCF).

Full information about the Charlotte Chess Masters

The African Individual Chess Championship 2021 is going to take place 17-28 May in Lilongwe, Malawi. The event has separate sections for men and women. Both tournaments will be 9 rounds Swiss.

Bitcoin, invented in 2008 by “Satoshi Nakamoto” and first released as open-source software in 2009, is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Without a central bank or single administrator, it can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography, eliminating the old danger of “double spending”, and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain.

Just a day after the announcement of the FTX Crypto Chess Cup 2021 by the Play Magnus group, Chess.com launches its crypto related chess event – CryptoChamps Chess by Coinbase.

CryptoChamps announcement

The 1st Online Workshop “Equal Opportunities” takes place 16-19 May 2021.

Today’s session of the Workshop includes speeches by the FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich, the ECU President Zurab Azmaiparashvili, the ECU Vice President Dana Reizniece-Ozola, the FIDE Planning and Development Commission Chairperson Sonja Johnson and other special guests.

The European Hybrid Qualification Tournament 2021 for the FIDE World Chess Cup 2021 will take place from 22nd-30th May through Tornelo online platform. The games start on May 24 and the total prize fund for the event is 32 000 eur.

The pairing tree for all rounds was announced yesterday by the Chief Arbiter Panagiotis Nikolopoulos and the Pairing Officer Marco Biagoli.

Play Magnus Group, the company of Magnus Carlsen, listed on the stock exchange and valued at 85 million, has acquired yet another chess project. After chess24, Chessable, iChess, New In Chess, EverymanChess, CoChess, and the Play Magnus App Suite, now it is time for Aimchess to join Play Magnus.

Aimchess announces it joins forces with Play Magnus

The Africa Individual Chess Championship 2021 is going to take place 17-28 May in Lilongwe, Malawi. Live games from the top boards will be daily on Chessdom.com

Africa Individual Chess 2021 full information / Participants Open / Participants women